National Theatre protest, 1946

ID: 3813 ~ Source: Courtesy of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University Archives, Howard University, Washington DC

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - National Theatre Goes Dark

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - National Theatre Goes Dark

Civil Rights Tour: Protest - National Theatre Goes Dark

In 1946, thirteen years after The Green Pastures played to a whites-only audience at the National Theatre, segregation was still the norm. But when a New York play starring Ingrid Bergman was booked at the Lisner Auditorium and Bergman and the…